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Donald McRae

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born

April 19, 1961 in South Africa

gender

male

website

http://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/donald-mcrae/

genre

Sports, Nonfiction, Social Sciences

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Donald McRae was born near Johannesburg in South Africa in 1961 and has been based in London since 1984.

He is the award-winning author of six non-fiction books which have featured legendary trial lawyers, heart surgeons and sporting icons. He is the only two-time winner of the UK’s prestigious William Hill Sports Book of the Year – an award won in the past by Nick Hornby’s Fever Pitch and Laura Hillenbrand’s Sea Biscuit. As a journalist he has won the UK’s Sports Feature Writer of The Year – and was runner up in the 2008 UK Sports Writer of the Year – for his work in the Guardian.

Donald lived under apartheid for the first twenty-three years of his life. The impact of that experience has shaped much of his non-fiction writing. At the age o...more

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Books by Donald McRae

Average rating: 3.87 · 119 ratings · 26 reviews · 10 distinct works

	Every Second Counts: The Race to Transplant the First Human Heart 3.85 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2006 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Dark Trade: Lost in Boxing 4.30 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1998 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Last Trials of Clarence Darrow 3.60 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	My rating:
	In Black and White 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Winter Colours: Changing Seasons in World Rugby 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Old Devil: Clarence Darrow: The World's Greatest Trial Lawyer 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Heroes Without a Country: America's Betrayal of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Under Our Skin: A White Family's Journey through South Africa's Darkest Years 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Nothing Personal: The Business of Sex 1.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1993	My rating:
	Law, Policy, and International Justice: Essays in Honour of Maxwell Cohen by Maxwell Cohen, William Kaplan, Donald McRae 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1993	My rating: